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That's a terribly poor analogy. If you break into my house and start living there, you occupy space and resources I could use myself, IP theft does not deprive
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
That's a terribly poor analogy. If you break into my house and start living there, you occupy space and resources I could use myself, IP theft does not deprive the originator of the invention or even first mover advantage profits. It just prevents IP from being used to keep 3rd world nations there.
The U.S. did the same to Europe in the 17/18th centuries when IT need to bring itself up to par, so did Japan in the 70s/80s - so did the Europeans to the Chinese before that.
China will, (and already does to an extent), innovate and enrich the world, it just needs to catch up fast and this is the best way to do it.
- PedroBatista 8y agoBut I wouldn’t kick you out of your house, I would just be there chillin’. Now seriously, you’re trying to justify theft using the old “we’re so little and innocent and they are so powerful and evil”. Just stop.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoIP theft would be like looking at my house and building a very similar one, or perhaps even peeking inside via the windows to note down the exact furniture. I'm not trying to say that it is a flawless way to go about it, or that anybody's 'evil', but please stop pretending that it is not a stage of every country's development at some point. Europe did it, Russia did it, the U.S. did it, Japan did it and now China does it. Perhaps that should tell you something. In the end, this helps a country to move past sweat shops and the like faster and am certainly not going to protest too loud against that.